When children start playing lacrosse, they flock to the glamour positions.All youngsters like scoring goals, so many try to play attack.
Although the baseball team used three equally dominating pitchers to power its way past visiting Temple yesterday, one in particular made his mark at Clarke Field ? and in the record books as well.Freshman reliever David Boehle broke the single season saves record in the Tigers' 4-1 victory over the Owls (14-24-3), as the hurler garnered his eighth of the season.
The year was 1994. The women's lacrosse team was going into the NCAA final against a Maryland squad that had given the Tigers its only loss of the season.
Nearing the end of their collegiate tennis careers, seniors Amanda Hastings-Phillips and Ahn Ahn Liu are in similar positions ? both are completing strong seasons at No.
There was a glimmer of hope at the end of football's disappointing 1999 campaign. Going into the fourth quarter, the team held an 18-point lead over Dartmouth in the final game of the season.Roger Hughes, then offensive coordinator for the Big Green, extinguished that light, erasing the deficit and sending the Tigers to the bottom of the Ivy League.Now, the same man will try to restore hope and the winning attitude of past Princeton teams.
Sophomore Brie Galicinao is a pitcher/first baseman for the softball team. She recently sat down with senior writer Paul Esposito.Prince: Why did you play softball, as opposed to any other sport?Galicinao: It wasn't actually my first sport.
The winningest football program in the Ivy League over the last 13 years, Princeton finished last season tied for last in the Ivies with Columbia, which had the least wins over that 13-year span by 20.
Normally, athlete of the week ? like the sport of tennis ? focuses on the individual.
When people say "that's just the way the ball bounces," they usually mean to trivialize something.
In a weekend that was determined by events that were out of the softball team's control, the Tigers lost just that ? control.Princeton let its Ivy League destiny slip out of its hands in a weekend of bad weather and worse results, as it lost two games to Dartmouth while both games against Harvard were postponed.In order for the Tigers (17-21 overall, 6-4 Ivy League) to remain in charge of their postseason path, they would have had to rip through the weekend without a loss.The Big Green (19-11, 4-2) quickly dashed Princeton's hopes.
Penn came to Clarke Field this weekend to question the strength of the baseball team's four-year hold on the Gehrig Division crown.
Judd Pritchard has been quietly leading the men's golf team all season. Overshadowed somewhat by the championship play of freshman Nat Hoopes in last week's Ivy League tournament, the senior captain was back in the spotlight this weekend.Pritchard led the Tigers to their third straight tournament win on Saturday, as the team defended its home course in the Princeton Invitational.
After losing a tough first race against No. 2 Brown to start the season, the women's open varsity eight boat has bounced back, dominating its competitors.
It might have been one day early, but it was a resurrection nonetheless.Down by three goals to No.
The men's lacrosse team begins every season with one goal in mind ? winning the Ivy League Championship.
Entering this weekend, the women?s tennis team was sitting pretty. Princeton was coming off a big win over perennial power Harvard and was in prime position to take home the Ivy League title.
Coming off the men's golf team's victory in the Ivy League tournament, Princeton went into this weekend looking to defend its home course.The Tigers won the rain-shortened Princeton Invitational at Springdale Golf Club behind the strength of a three-under par 68 by senior captain Judd Pritchard.Pritchard captured the individual title in the competition as the Tigers shot a four-over 288 as a team on the day to take the overall crown.Princeton has now won its past three team tournament championships.The tournament was shortened from two rounds to only the one Saturday due to heavy rainfall and winds Friday. SoftballNeeding a perfect weekend to clinch a share of the Ivy title, Princeton suffered a devastating two-game sweep at the hands of Dartmouth.
Yesterday the baseball team saw its pitching mimic the weekend?s weather: It was sloppy from the beginning, but good when it really mattered.After two full days of doubleheaders against Penn were washed out - a Friday-Saturday pairing quickly turned into Sunday-Monday - Princeton took two average performances from the mound and turned them into wins.
With Penn coming to town today and eight games left in the Ivy League season, it is do-or-die time for baseball."Neither one of us can afford to have a bad weekend," head coach Scott Bradley said.
This weekend marks the confluence of a lot of lacrosse history. The Princeton-Syracuse men's lacrosse rivalry scantly needs repeating.
